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Michael Hanchard, often published as Michael G. Hanchard, is an American political scientist, currently the Gustave C. Kuemmerle Professor of… more

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Reposted by Michael Hancher, Greg Walker, Margot C. Finn

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Fab editorial by @umnenglish.bsky.social faculty.
"Majoring in English is by no means a bad investment of a student’s time and tuition dollars. ... While graduates with English degrees may start out earning less than peers in other fields, they out-earn them in the second half of their careers."
Counterpoint | Actually, English majors are thriving at the University of Minnesota
"As the chair of the English department, past English chair, and assistant dean of curriculum and instruction at the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities, we often find reports of the demise of ...
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by Michael Hancher

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fiction,nonfiction,creative nonfiction,literary fiction
books.google.com/ngrams/graph...
Google Books Ngram Viewer
Google Ngrams: fiction, nonfiction, creative nonfiction, literary fiction, 1800-2022
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by Michael Hancher

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DUAI?
“Waymo driverless car stopped by Bay Area police during DUI operation”
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Waymo driverless car stopped by Bay Area police during DUI operation
Police in one Bay Area city expected to spend Friday night looking for impaired drivers. Instead, they found themselves pulling over a car with no driver at all.
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by Michael Hancher

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The Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children, ex libris C. K. Ogden archive.org/details/camb...
The Cambridge book of poetry for children : Grahame, Kenneth, 1859-1932 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
2 v. in 1 20 cm
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by Michael Hancher

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close reading, active reading
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Google Books Ngram Viewer
Google Ngrams: close reading, active reading, 1800-2022
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We have some words for you.

Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary.

The NEW Twelfth Edition.

Made of paper.

11.18.2025

www.merriam-webster.com/collegiate-d...
Merriam Webster NEW 12th Edition Collegiate Dictionary
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by Michael Hancher

michaelhancher.bsky.social
AI is like karaoke. Discuss.

Reposted by Michael Hancher, Mark D. White, Lesley A. Hall , and 4 more

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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪

Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.

I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
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The Dictionary of Old English. Interview with Stephen Pelle.
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The Dictionary of Old English. Interview with Stephen Pelle.
YouTube video by Bologermanica
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FYI: Free event – Tracking the history of English with the Oxford English Dictionary
FYI: Free event – Tracking the history of English with the Oxford English Dictionary
Virtual panel discussion: Tracking the history of English with the Oxford English Dictionary Thu, 23 October, 05:00 – 06:30 PM BST (UTC +1) Book your place: http://tiny.cc/History-of-English-LL Join OED editors and guest speakers for a discussion where they will uncover a thousand years of the English language. This session will cover: - Overview of University College London's 'From Old English to World Englishes' project - How the work of OED's historical lexicographers complem
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by Michael Hancher

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SEEN BY PRESERVATION SERVICES
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If you're in or near Atlanta, or *super juiced* 😜 about close reading and love to travel, come to Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century: A Symposium at Emory University on Friday, November 7. And hear from these superstars...
A program for a close reading symposium at Emory University on November 7, 2025, in Room 208 in Convocation Hall, from 8:15 to 5:15, with breakfast, lunch, and panels on studying, teaching, and evaluating close reading, and close reading across the disciplines
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by Michael Hancher

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Not to mention the problem of wave erasure (“One day I wrote her name upon the strand, / But came the waves and washed it away”), which ends happily enough for writing: hdl.handle.net/2027/iau.318...
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by Michael Hancher

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Knapp and Michaels, "Again Theory" (2023) (critinq.wordpress.com/2023/06/30/h...) reminds me that before there was "AI" and before there were "wave poems" there was a "wave warning," which Marcia Eaton examined to similar effect in 1969 (www.jstor.org/stable/20009...).
Here Is a Wave Poem that I Wrote . . . I Hope You Like It!
Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels 30 June 2023 In “Against Theory,” after the second wave has washed up and left behind what looks like the second stanza of “A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal,” we a…
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✨ It's official! We're now accepting proposals for #RSVP2026, "Movements and Migrations"! We invite scholars to examine the relationship between periodicals, migrations, and movements for our 2026 conference in Dublin. Full CFP and more details on our main website.
RSVP Annual Conference – RSVP
The nineteenth century was marked by unprecedented migration, as people moved to urban centers; were forcibly or semi-forcibly relocated; and emigrated to escape war, famine, economic instability, or…
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by Michael Hancher

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Teach the differences?

by Michael Hancher

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Excellent.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Aug 25
All full up on relentless doom-scrolling for the moment. Back to contemplating wallpaper.
William Morris 1879 Sunflower wallpaper
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phdhurtbrain.bsky.social
All full up on relentless doom-scrolling for the moment. Back to contemplating wallpaper.
William Morris 1879 Sunflower wallpaper
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by Michael Hancher

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ADMINISTRATION (in this case, at the Minnesota State Fair)
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by Michael Hancher

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First day lunch at the Fair.
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Call for abstracts for 20-min presentations about a dictionary collector, a dictionary collection, or dictionary collecting (or some combination of the three) at a symposium celebrating Madeline Kripke and her collection's move to Indiana University.

blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/lilly/2025/0...
Look at What We’ve Unpacked! No, Really, Come to Bloomington to Look at It
IU Libraries Blogs
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by Michael Hancher

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Littera scripta manet

Reposted by Michael Hancher, Lesley A. Hall, Margot C. Finn

rs4vp.org
📣 Curran Fellowships are now OPEN! Per our most recent newsletter, we've moved up our Curran awards to allow recipients time to plan summer travel. Applications due Oct. 15. As always, guidelines and more info are on our website!
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The Curran Fellowships – RSVP
The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century in making use of primary print and archival so...
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by Michael Hancher

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"The Beast in the Jungle" or even "The Jolly Corner"?
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by Michael Hancher

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AI winged hand, etc.
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by Michael Hancher

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Today, sitting for an hour or so at the reading desk of a library (though admittedly online) I picked up this isolated truth before unknown to me: “He takes himself frequently to _the reading desks of the libraries_,” etc., as at:
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by Michael Hancher

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Context-sensitive OCR has been long overdue.

by Michael Hancher

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More pictures at doi.org/10.1080/0266...
Bailey and after: illustrating meaning
Samuel Johnson and Noah Webster share their preeminence in the history of English lexicography with a man now almost forgotten, who usually signed his books simply ‘N. Bailey’. Even in his lifetime...
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by Michael Hancher

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The better edition.
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by Michael Hancher

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Interesting that the remarkably verbose alt text (probably AI-generated) is good at description but not at interpretation.
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Tim Hergert @cjust.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · Jul 26
Fine - you win this round McD's
The image captures a daytime exterior view of a McDonald's restaurant, along with a portion of what appears to be a neighboring Chick-fil-A. The focus is primarily on the McDonald's signage, which dominates the right side of the frame. The McDonald's sign is a classic design featuring the iconic golden arches in a bright yellow hue against a maroon background. Below the arches, the word "McDonald's" is printed in a silver font. Beneath the primary logo, a marquee board displays the message "WE WELCOME EVERYONE" in capital letters, illuminated with a warm, yellowish glow. To the left of the McDonald's sign, the building's exterior is visible, featuring a light-colored facade with a section of brickwork. A portion of a Chick-fil-A sign can be seen on the left, with the brand's stylized red logo. The composition is slightly angled, with the McDonald's sign positioned at the right and a hint of the sky peeking through at the top. The overall color palette is warm, with the yellow and red hues of the fast-food signs contrasting against the blue sky in the background. The lighting suggests a bright, sunny day.

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